mymt: <Knight13> I noticed your question about "sudden death" time control,it seems you havent played OTB Tournaments very often or you would surely have come accross it. Many chess club also use that time control to avoid adjournments.If you dont belong to a club you should join ,I think you will like it.

Knight13: 9. Ne3 may be premature, but McDonnell didn't think so. In other games with the same opening, he would happily capture the d4 pawn with the c-pawn anyway when taking it with the Knight is the correct choice and take the bishop check even with the knight on c2. This is the third game with the same opening where I've seen McDonnell happily take the Kf2 route. However, he did learn from his mistakes and decided to castle his King in this opening in later games.

offramp: When Morphy got that highly paid job with the Neue Orleanische Schachzeitung he may have asked the editor what he should write about and been told to write about the favourite games of his youth: the Lab-Mac games.

When he had a look at the games with his cold adult eyes he experienced a frisson of Hammer-like terror.

To his expert brain the games would have been a catalogue of every type of human failure and error, from spilling soup to dropping nuts.

He stared at the games, open-mouthed. Then, weeping, he repeated the heart-rending words of Archie McLaren:

keypusher: <offramp><hudapri> is right, as I suspect you know. Looking at Morphy's notes to this game, however, we can see that being forced to annotate Staunton's games genuinely would have wrung tears from Morphy.

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